The Government should develop and publicly share contingency plans around a hard Brexit, Micheál Martin has said.

For residents of the small village of Bridgend, British prime ministerial statements made in the distant Westminster Parliament are usually an irrelevant affair.

People living along Ireland's border are gripped by trepidation and fear in the countdown to the UK's referendum, business chiefs have said.

Derry breathed a sign of relief tonight after an annual loyalist Apprentice Boys parade passed off without trouble.

A groundbreaking agreement which will see thousands of Orangemen parade in the nationalist West Bank of Derry next month was today held up as a example for others involved parading disputes.